Sexual Orientation This day in age it is common to come into the company of someone who is "gay" or "homosexual", but the question remains, how does one obtain this orientation? Can someone really be "born gay"? This is a very controversial topic that scientist insist is inaccurate. Homosexual men or women debate that there is a "gay gene". this belief is false, and proven by numerous experts and scientist who have conducted complex experiments and brought about many studies on the subject. Some groups like to argue that people are "born gay" and those who are, have a mental illness. This claim is incorrect. Some one cannot begin to understand what it means to be homosexual when they do not yet understand how to pick their own heads up. Becoming homosexual is something that comes with time and understanding. Stanton L. Jones, author of same-sex science says, "We are told that homosexual persons are just as psychologically healthy as heterosexuals, that sexual orientation is biologically determined at birth, that sexual orientation cannot be changed and that the attempt to change it is necessarily harmful.... These claims are as …show more content…
Scientist have proven with complex biology that there is no direct gene that has any connection to a person's sexuality. Scientist Stien Debunk confirms this claim when he says, "Additionally, such studies should take seriously the possibility that biology plays an indirect role, rather than a direct role in the development of sexual orientation, rather than factors actually shaping a person's sexual orientation in the way that biology shapes eye color." (Debunk). Debunk is explaining that sexuality cannot be genetically created while in the womb and branched from generations like a specific eye or hair color. Hair and eye colors are something that is past from parents to offspring, but sexual orientation is not obtained in this specific